Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: There’s something disquieting about the trendiness of Earth Day. I mean, I’m glad it comes each year and that some consciousness-raising gets done. But compared to the intensity and progressive edge of its first years, something is lacking – like perhaps the exigencies of the change required in [...]
Tags: earth biocapacity, earth day, fossil fuel, Gaylord Nelson, Greenhorns, industrial agriculture, organic farming, simple living, Winona LaDuke
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: What kind of world do we want to live in? What kind of world are we making? You may have seen this story – the air pollution in Hong Kong reached historic levels this week, air too dangerous for anyone to breathe. Reported the NY Times: Air pollution [...]
Tags: causes of desertification, deforestation and desertification, desertification in china, ecology and human meaning, era of great disruption, hong kong air pollution, industrial agriculture, ogallala aquifer, sand storms china
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: …we westerners have lost our ancestral knowledge of how to survive on the Earth. — Chellis Glendinning The more I delve into the underpinnings of our ecological crisis, the larger, deeper, more profound the picture becomes. Now I’m reading a book that takes me right back to the [...]
Tags: chellis glendinning, collapse of civilization, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, ecology and justice, end of empire, food crisis, industrial agriculture, jared diamond, peak oil, planetary crisis, resilient communities, sedentism, technological society
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: This year the number of hungry in our world increased to 1.02 billion – nearly one in 7 people. Folks who have followed this blog, or who know me from my previous work (director of the Religious Task Force on Central America and Mexico until 2004 – see [...]
Tags: FAO, food sovereignty, global hunger, hunger and ecology, industrial agriculture, sustainable agriculture, U.N. Food Program, world summit on food security